Wang Jianlin, RICHEST MAN OF CHINA READY TO INVEST IN ROME
In New York, feverish negotiations to bring fresh money ( and at the same time enter by force in Asian markets ) for the Rome James Pallotta . A Chinese property developer would be interested in a full-bodied subscription of shares in the holding company of Roma , currently majority owned by memo ” group” with an American and about 30% still in the hands Unicredit. The news, which finds ample confirmation from the investigations carried out by Il Sole 24 Ore, confirms the commitment of the Giallorossi for market share not only in China but throughout the East . The new shareholder of Rome would be Wang Jianlin : the richest man in the People’s Republic of China ( according to Forbes magazine its assets totaled $ 8.6 billion , the 128th in the world) is ready to become a new member of the ‘ AS Rome .
But who is Wang Jianlin ? In addition to being the richest man in the People’s Republic is the chairman of Dalian Wanda Group , the largest real estate firm in China ( 26 thousand employees). In addition , last year the tycoon bought for $ 2.6 billion in the American chain AMC Entertainment Holdings, becoming the largest operator of cinema halls in the world. He has a penchant for art. Confirmed by the fact that to make a 1950 Picasso , ” Claude and Paloma” (the two youngest children of the great Spanish artist ) , spent $ 28 million in about ten days ago. But it’s not just art . About football , Wang Jianlin was more patriot has recently invested $ 77 million in the Chinese Football Association . But after the meetings in New York with Pallotta Fiorentino and looks ready to replicate the plunge like in the movies , succeeding to Unicredit , which holds 31 % of the shares Giallorossi . And what could be the first objective of the president of a real estate business ? The stadium property . Wang Jianlin , in fact , would come as the first sponsor in the construction of the plant.